The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 127

Then she gave the Princess a roast chicken to eat, and warned her to be very careful not to lose any of the bones, because they might be of great use to her.

Who acts: Princess, bones · What happens: give, eat, warn, be, not lose · To what, where: roast chicken, Princess, any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, bones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Princess	det
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chicken	det
7	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chicken	compound
8	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 chicken	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 warned	cc
13	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warned	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	18 careful	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 careful	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 careful	advmod
18	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 warned	ccomp
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 lose	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 lose	mark
21	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 careful	xcomp
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 lose	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bones	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bones	det
25	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 any	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 use	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 use	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 use	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 use	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 use	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 use	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 use	amod
33	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lose	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 use	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Princess	a roast chicken	the Princess	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient chicken=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	a roast chicken not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	warn speech: warn	past	Princess not said here		Princess			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	to-infinitive					careful property	tree rules
5	not lose	to-infinitive		any				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
6	is	might	bones = bone		Princess		of great use	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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